Griselda Quotes in Strange Magic (2015)

Griselda: I wanted a wedding. Now I'm getting' a funeral!

[from trailer]

Bog King: Meet... my mother!

Griselda: [looks at Marianne] Don't you have a comb?

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?

Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!

Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?

Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.

Hawkins: A flagon...?

Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.

Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.

Griselda: Right.

Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?

Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!

Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Griselda: Just remember that.

Fergus: I'm Fergus, the Ostler.

Hawkins: Who-whogus the Whatsler?

Fergus: Fergus, the Ostler. It is I, not Ravenhurst, who is your friend.

Hawkins: [ushering Fergus back to the window] Look, my good man, you pick your friends, and I shall pick mine. At the moment, I have a very important mission with the king. After all, I am the incomparable Giacomo, king of jesters and jester of kings.

[Griselda enters unnoticed]

Hawkins: I have entertained in all the courts of Europe and speak a ready wit in their every tongue.

[turns and runs into Griselda]

Hawkins: [without missing a beat] Now, who are you?

Griselda: I am Griselda.

Hawkins: Gri-who-lda?

Griselda: [Correcting Hawkins' recitation of the directions about the drinks] No! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle...

Jean: ...the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. Even I can say it!

Hawkins: Then YOU fight him!

Griselda: I bring you a message from the princess.

Hubert Hawkins: The royal princess?

Griselda: Yes, she finds you most attractive and would like to meet you.

Hubert Hawkins: Me?

Griselda: She finds you passing fair, passing gracefully.

Hubert Hawkins: Tell her, "Thank you very much, but I'm just passing through."

Griselda: Listen. I have put a pellet of poison in one of the vessels.

Hawkins: Which one?

Griselda: The one with the figure of a pestle.

Hawkins: The vessel with the pestle?

Griselda: Yes. But you don't want the vessel with the pestle, you want the chalice from the palace!

Hawkins: I don't want the vessel with the pestle, I want the chalice from... the what?

Jean: The chalice from the palace!

Hawkins: Hmmm?

Griselda: It's a little crystal chalice with a figure of a palace.

Hawkins: The chalice from the palace has the pellet with the poison?

Griselda: No, the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.

Hawkins: Oh, oh, the pestle with the vessel.

Jean: The vessel with the pestle.

Hawkins: What about the palace from the chalice?

Griselda: Not the palace from the chalice! The chalice from the palace!

Hawkins: Where's the pellet with the poison?

Griselda: In the vessel with the pestle.

Griselda: The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.

Jean: Don't you see? The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.

Griselda: The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Jean: It's so easy, I can say it.

Hawkins: Well then you fight him!

Griselda: Listen carefully. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.

Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.

Jean: Good man!